The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-12-02
LATER NEWS.

Two valuable coal breakers-one ST Drift.
ton and the other at New Buck Mountain.
Penn--were destroyed by fires, believed to
be of incendiary origin, a few days since
Total estimated loss, 500, 600
WILSON MILLER (colored), pension agent at
Vicksburg, Miss, has been found guilty OF
fleeing many people and sent TO the Peni-
Tertiary.
AN estimated loss OF over s., 800. 600. has
been incurred by forest fires in Arkansas.
Plantations, cotton mills and lumber mills
all over the State have been DESTROYED, and
several villages are reported in ruins
A BOILER explosion in a sawmill near Pres
colt, Arizona, killed W. T Wilson, one of
the proprietors, and five other men A num-
Der of men were seriously injured
AT the National Convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union in
Nashville, Mrs. Boole, Corresponding Secre-
tary of the New York Union, brought her
eight-months-old baby on the platform The
Convention rose to receive the little delegate,
who was decorated with the national badge
by the President, Miss Willard
The President has returned, with many
thanks, warranty deed to the title of a
corner lot in park at St Paul, Mimi, pre-
THE French Ministry, being defeated in the
Chamber of Deputies the question of its
domestic policy, has resigned President
Grevy accepted the resignation of his Minis
tiers, with the request that they continue in
office until a new Cabinet could be formed
OWING TO the illness Of the German Crown
Prince, his son, Prince William, will, by COM
mand of the Emperor, represent his father at
all future State ceremonies and receptions.
HENRY '. LESLIE and James A. L. Wilson,
who, while officers of the Delaware and
Chesapeake Canal Company, embezzled
nearly 100000, pleaded guilty, in Philadel-
phia, and were sentenced to the Penitentiary
Tor eight and six years respectively.
T. I. BARNUM was asleep in a New York
hotel while his menagerie was burning in
Bridgeport. When awakened and informed
of the fire, he told his wife he was sorry, but
it was ''alI right, and rolled over and went
to asleep again. This is the fifth time the old
Snowman has been burned out He is active
~ preparing to get together another show.
FORT SCOTT, Kan, has had fire which de-
stroyed the GoOdlander Touring mills and
elevator, with 10000 bushels of wheat, and
damaged adjacent buildings. Total damage,
$3.50, 600
Two freight trains collided near Tunnel
Hill, Ill. causing the death of both engineers,
fireman and brakeman.
A MEXICAN who was stabbed in the heart
by another Mexican at Ell Paso, Texas, lived
for two hours with his left Tentricle cut
something unprecedented.
MORE than a dozen vessels have been
wrecked or badly injured in furious storm
on the Great Lakes, and numerous lives have
been lost.
SINCE the Senate adjourned last March the
President has made about $50 appointments
that require the approval of the Senate In
the list are included some important nomin-
ations, such as the Secretary of the Treasury,
United States Treasurer, the Interstate
Commerce and Pacific Railroad Commits
siOnerS, the Commissioner of Patents and
Others including numerous Postmasters.
THE total amount of money sent by money
orders and postal notes during the past fiscal
year was $13S, 267, O16.
RUSSIA is massing 100000 soldiers on the
German and Austrian frontiers
In recent raids upon Nihilists in Russia $50
persons were arrested. Nine officers under
arrest committed suicide
THE Liverpool steamship Douro has been
wrecked off Cape Finisterre. Thirteen per-
sons were drowned.